VERSE STUDY • KJV

1 Corinthians 3:2

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

Read it in 5 translations

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able;

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ.

2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able.

3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I [am] of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

5 Who then is Paul, and who [is] Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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